Caepet-stretcher



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOS. WARNER, OE NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

CARPET-STRETGHER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 19,596, dated March 9, 1858'.

To all wh-0m t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WARNER, of New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Implement or Device for Stretching Carpets while being Tacked or Otherwise Secured to Floors; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, 'reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specication, in which- Figure l, is a plan or top view of my improvement, applied to a carpet, which is shown in red. E ig. 2, is a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both ligures.

This invention consists in having a lever with teeth attached pivoted to a plate provided with spurs; the parts being arranged as hereinafter shown, whereby the implement may be readily secured to the floor and connected with the edge of the carpet in such a way that the carpet as it is tacked or secured to the ioor may be stretched with the greatest facility; the implement being readily detached from and applied to the floor so that it may be moved along and adjusted to the carpet as the same is tacked or secured to the floor.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I Will proceed to describe it.

A is a bent lever constructed of metal and pivoted to a metal plate B, as shown at (a). This lever is of zig-zag form as shown clearly in Fig. l, and has a knob at one end, and at the opposite end a plate` (o), the front edge of which had teeth (d) formed on it. The plate B is provided with spurs (e) which project from its under side near the fulcrum (d) of the lever, see Fig. 2, and a piece of board (f) is secured to the plate B.

The lever A should be formed of a metal bar of sufficient thickness to prevent springing when the implement is used.

The implement is used as follows The carpet to be secured to the floor isv laid upon it, and one side or edge tacked or secured to the floor at one side of the room. The implement is then laid on the carpet at the opposite side of the room, the board (f) being placed against or near the base board (g), the spurs (e) passed through the carpet into the floor, and the teeth (d) shoved into the edge of the carpet. The outer end of the lever A is then shoved by the operator to the left as shown by the red dotted lines until the edge of the carpet is forced againstthe bottom of the base board (g), and the portion of the carpet thus stretched is secured to the floor. rlhe implement is then raised from the Hoor, moved along for a short distance, and again placed on the carpet and the spurs (e) of the plate B pressed into the floor, the teeth (d) shoved into the edge of the carpet, and the lever moved as before, and the portion of carpet stretched secured to the floor. The implement is thus moved all around the room, with the exception of the side at which the carpet was first secured, so that the carpet will be stretched smoothly on the floor.

I would remark that I do not confine myself to a bent lever, nor to any particular form, although the shape as herein shown or an approximate form would probably be preferable to most others.

This implement possesses many advantages over'the ordinary toothed bar provided with a straight handle, for in the ordinary stretcher no leverage power is obtained, and as the operator must necessarily shove the implement directly-in front of him to stretch each portion of carpet vwhere the implement is applied, his own weight will in a measure prevent the carpet from being perfectly stretched. In my improve` ment a leverage power is obtained by the lever A; and in using the implement, the operator is not compelled to be on the portion of carpet being stretched, consequently the carpet may be perfectly stretched and snugly or smoothly fitted to the floor.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

The lever A, of any proper form or shape, provided at one end with teeth (d) and pivoted to a plate B, having spurs (e) attached, substantially as andv for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH l/VARNER.

Witnesses MARoELLUs CLARK, WM. BINGHAM. 

